Dopamine biosynthesis is selectively abolished in substantia nigra/ventral tegmental area but not in hypothalamic neurons in mice with targeted disruption of the Nurr1 gene

Molecular and Cellular Neurosciences

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 36-46

  Castillo, Susan O ^a   Baffi, Judit S ^b   Palkovits, Miklós ^c   Goldstein, David S ^b   Kopin, Irwin J ^b   Witta, Jassir ^a   Magnuson, Mark A ^d   Nikodem, Vera M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC LEVO AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE; HORMONE RECEPTOR; LEVODOPA; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; GENE DISRUPTION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HYPOTHALAMUS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031805754     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mcne.1998.0673     Document Type: Article

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